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This study examines the alleged conflict of wto law with international human rights law using one of the most prominent examples of such a conflict that between international patent law ie the trips agreement and access to medication as guaranteed eg by the international covenant on economic social and cultural rights. The narrow focus on how human rights might inform disputes on the use of trips flexibilities at the wto is a weakness of the book because although the extent to which human rights have informed the debate about patents and access to medicines in developing countries is touched on the book devotes insufficient attention to this issue. This study examines the alleged conflict of wto law with international human rights law using a prominent example of such a conflict that between international patent law ie the trips agreement and access to medicine as guaranteed eg by the international covenant on economic social and cultural rights the highly controversial political issue of the appropriate application of . Get this from a library human rights and the wto the case of patents and access to medicines holger hestermeyer this book examines one of the most controversial aspects of the world trading system patents and access to medication and offers approaches to tackle the issue of how to better accommodate human . The international trading system has come under increasing attack by activists as being in conflict with human rights law others have defended the system as contributing more to the fulfilment of human rights than many other areas of international law this study examines the alleged conflict of wto law with international human rights law using one of the most prominent examples of such a